As part of Mama’s Losin’ It Writing Prompts this week I’ve decided to write about the top 10 reasons I can’t sleep at night. Sure, I’m exhausted but exhaustion doesn’t always lead to sleeping.. at least not for me. Here’s just a few of the reasons as to why I’m always exhausted anyways.

1. My husband is snoring or making weird mouth noises and smacking in his sleep… this irks me tremendously but I patiently ask him to roll over at least 4 nights a week. But now I know why my mom preferred to sleep on the couch when my dad would snore. It’s never ending and they always roll right back into that annoying position that led to the snoring in the first place.
2. The alarm clocks going off for at least an hour every night between 1-2 a.m. Yep! That’s what time my husband has to get up and that my dears is why I never get a full night’s sleep.
3. I keep having these freaky dreams about bugs on my walls and spiders in my bed. No joke. At least twice a week I dream about freaky little bugs running across the walls by my head. I’m guessing this stems from the time there really was a spider crawling on my wall right by me as I leaned against the wall while I sat on my bed about a month ago. I’m suddenly remembering why I used to pay someone to spray a spider barrier around my house.
4. My kids have a bad dream, talk in their sleep, or wake up at the crack of dawn because they think it’s time to wake up. My son thinks if he’s up then everyone else should be too.. even if it is 3 in the morning!
5. Sometimes I can’t sleep because I can’t fall back asleep after my husband’s alarms go off for an hour.. so I get up and check my emails, play games online, check my ebay page, eat. You know, the usual things people do in the middle of the night. LOL
6. Sometimes I lay in bed worrying about money, life, health, etc. My husband calls me the eternal pessimist, maybe I am.
7. Sometimes I lay in bed dwelling on all the things I have to get done. I often wonder at night how I’m going to write up 5 reviews or giveaways, take the kids to school, pick them up, go grocery shopping, go to 2 appointments AND get my house clean all within 2 days. Dwelling on it certainly doesn’t help me. Maybe I should just sleep and quit thinking about it so I have the energy to actually get it done. Easier said than done though.
8. My cats keep me awake sometimes. Sometimes they’re running through the house like crazy psychotic little furballs and sometimes they like to puke on me or around me! I’ve spent many MANY minutes of my life cleaning up cat puke in the middle of the night. Remind me again why I like cats?
9. I’ve spent the past week sick. I can’t breathe and it keeps me from sleeping. Unless of course I remember to take the Nyquil. I love Nyquil. If only I could sleep that good ALL the time!
10. Sometimes I can’t sleep because I have 5 blankets on me and I get too hot. That’s my fault. Sometimes I can’t sleep because my husband has cranked down the heat to under 70 (what he calls 75) and I’m so cold my goose bumps have goose bumps which is why I sleep with 5 blankets. Often times these are the nights he likes to steal my blankets and then accuses me of taking up the whole bed because I tried to scoot closer to him with my ice cold feet.

I’ve come to the point where I’m accepting the fact that I’m never going to get a truly good night’s sleep again. I can live with it. Do I like it? No! I seriously miss the teenage years where I could sleep all night and into half the next day. I know I’m not alone though.. I look out my window sometimes while I’m awake in the middle of the night and see lights on every so often in the homes around us. What keeps you awake at night? Is it your kids? Your pets? Your husband? All of the above? Or do you sleep like a baby and wonder what’s wrong with the rest of us?

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